Starts good but turns into typical action flick

Rating: 5/10 (11 May 2009)

Imagine, that you are living in a closed society, where all your needs are tented. You are healthy, you have friends and a job. But you can't go outside, because the people in charge tell you, that the outside world is contaminated and you would die, if you go there. There is one hope though: to win a lottery, that allows you to go in the last clean place in the world: the island.
I've read from many places, that The Island is Michael Bays best movie. But in a sense, it's his biggest wasted opportunity to do a movie, that is not just action, but a meaningful, insightful essay of what humans really are. The beginning is really good and the cast is fantastic. But then, after the action starts to kick in Bay shows, that yes, he still is the same man, who finds the only glass table from the room for shot man to fall on.
A movie manned with talented actors like Ewan McGregor and Sean Bean could have been so much more. But now it's nothing more than your typical, mindless action yarn, with an ending so sugar coated, that you can feel your teeth rotting in your mouth.